Re: [WiX-users] How To Skip Custom Dilalog On Repair ?

2010-05-03 Thread ppremk
Hi, I have done something similar but not during repair. this is the snippet i had used. it might give you some idea's 1. I had extended the standard WiXUI_Mondo source that you could download. I included the changes in a of my main installer. 2. Changed the portion which is necessary for the

[WiX-users] How to GAC an assembly against .NET 3.5 and 4.0

2010-05-03 Thread Andres Juarez
Hi All, We have been GAC'ing an assembly against .NET 3.5 by making use of the Assembly=".net" attribute. That works well. Now we need to support cases where the end customer might have .NET 3.5 and 4.0 in the same machine and therefore we want to GAC the assembly against both versions

[WiX-users] Cabinet file dates are stored in local time rather than UTC

2010-05-03 Thread Matthew Rowan
Hi Guys I'm having this issue where creating an installer in Australia and having it available for download in the US causes WPF images to be unable to be generated. The cause we have determined is that the modified date of the assemblies is in the future due to the Cabbing process storing the fil

[WiX-users] can't find file in non-cab media

2010-05-03 Thread Matt Johnson
I have one very large file that I want to keep outside of my main installer. I plan on distributing a CD such as: \Setup.msi \External\BigFile.exe My product media tags are thus: I then set DiskId="2" on the component owning BigFile.exe. Wix seems to like this. I build with Votive, vs2010,

Re: [WiX-users] Update progress bar from deferred custom action

2010-05-03 Thread Dariel Marlow
Matt, thank you! I had nearly the same thing, but was trying to follow the steps on the site. Having the immediate and deferred custom actions is what was causing me problems. Thanks again, Dariel -Original Message- From: Matt Johnson [mailto:ma...@timeamerica.com] Sent: Monday, May 0

Re: [WiX-users] Property/@Secure - when to use?

2010-05-03 Thread Matt Johnson
Very interesting. My particular installer is for setting up a server application, so I require an administrator to perform the install. Matt Johnson MCPD, MCTS, MCSD, MCDBA Director of Application Development Time America, Inc. ma...@timeamerica.com | www.timeamerica.com -Original Message

Re: [WiX-users] Update progress bar from deferred custom action

2010-05-03 Thread Matt Johnson
Dariel, Here are two c# functions that should help you work with the progress bar from a managed custom action. If you're using unmanaged c++ code, refer to WcaProgressMessage as Rob suggested. public static MessageResult ResetProgressBar(Session session, int totalStatements) { var record =

Re: [WiX-users] Writing INSTALLLOCATION to registry fails!

2010-05-03 Thread subramanyeswari
May be this helps. http://blogs.technet.com/alexshev/archive/2008/03/29/from-msi-to-wix-part-14-installable-items-registry-keys-and-values.aspx I am not sure. Regards, Subramanyeswari -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Writing-INSTAL

Re: [WiX-users] shortcut element

2010-05-03 Thread subramanyeswari
thanks. I have added non-advertised shortcut in my code. here is the code here i am getting two ice errors(43 and 57). I suppressed them. is it because of that. How do i get ? icon as it is a chm file? On the installtion the icon is not shorwing up with a question mark? instead a blank i